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The covariant Dirac equation in Robertson-Walker space-time is studied under the comoving coordinates. The exact forms of the spatial factor of wave function are respectively acquired in closed, spatially flat, and open universes.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Xin-Bing Huang

Geodesics escape is widely used to study the scattering of hyperbolic equations. However, there are few progresses except in a simply connected complete Riemannian manifold with nonpositive curvature. We propose a kind of complete…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Zhen-Hu Ning , Fengyan Yang , Xiaopeng Zhao

A complete treatment of the intersections of two geodesics on the surface of an ellipsoid of revolution is given. With a suitable metric for the distances between intersections, bounds are placed on their spacing. This leads to fast and…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Charles F. F. Karney

Background: Functional connectomes (FCs), have been shown to provide a reproducible individual fingerprint, which has opened the possibility of personalized medicine for neuro/psychiatric disorders. Thus, developing accurate ways to compare…

Let $V$ be a separable Hilbert space, possibly infinite dimensional. Let $\St(p,V)$ be the Stiefel manifold of orthonormal frames of $p$ vectors in $V$, and let $\Gr(p,V)$ be the Grassmann manifold of $p$ dimensional subspaces of $V$. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Philipp Harms , Andrea C. G. Mennucci

We study the linear wave equation on a class of spatially homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetimes in the decelerated regime with spatial topology $\mathbb{R}^3$. Employing twisted $t$-weighted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-23 Mahdi Haghshenas

Geodesic orbit equations in the Schwarzschild geometry of general relativity reduce to ordinary conic sections of Newtonian mechanics and gravity for material particles in the non-relativistic limit. On the contrary, geodesic orbit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-03 Lorenzo Resca

This paper studies the geodesics connecting two time-like separated boundary points in asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime. We find that in spherically symmetry Schwarzschild AdS black hole, smooth space-like geodesics can connect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 Jia-Hao He , Run-Qiu Yang

Anti--de Sitter spacetime is important in general relativity and modern field theory. We review its geometrical features and properties of light signals and free particles moving in it. Applying only elementary tools of tensor calculus we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-04 Leszek M. Sokolowski

A half-geodesic is a closed geodesic realizing the distance between any pair of its points. All geodesics in a round sphere are half-geodesics. Conversely, this note establishes that Riemannian spheres with all geodesics closed and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Ian M Adelstein , Benjamin Schmidt

We introduce a novel representation and optimization framework for discrete geodesics on triangle meshes that reduces artifacts of linear methods on uneven and coarse discretizations. Our method computes squared geodesic distances from…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yue Ruan , Albert Chern , Tzu-Mao Li , Kartic Subr , Amir Vaxman

The explicit coordinate transformations which show the equivalence between the FRW metrics of four-dimensional open and closed universes and the metrics induced on appropriate submanifolds in a five-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-07 Igor E. Gulamov , Mikhail N. Smolyakov

We discuss flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) metric-affine cosmology where the metric and connection as well as the matter energy-momentum and hypermomentum all obey the symmetry of spatial homogeneity and isotropy. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Ilaria Andrei , Damianos Iosifidis , Laur Järv , Margus Saal

Many important problems in astrophysics, space physics, and geophysics involve flows of (possibly ionized) gases in the vicinity of a spherical object, such as a star or planet. The geometry of such a system naturally favors numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 V. Florinski , D. S. Balsara , S. Garain , K. F. Gurski

The (4+1) dimensional conformally flat Eisenhart geometry is investigated in this work, stressing the contribution of the stress tensor generating its curvature. The energy-momentum tensor $T^{a}_{~b}$ is traceless and has only one nonzero…

General Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Hristu Culetu

In this paper the space of images is considered as a Riemannian manifold using the metamorphosis approach, where the underlying Riemannian metric simultaneously measures the cost of image transport and intensity variation. A robust and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Benjamin Berkels , Alexander Effland , Martin Rumpf

We study a Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) space-time in the theory of $f(Q)$-gravity, where $Q$ denotes the non-metricity scalar. It has been previously shown in the literature, that there exist four distinct families of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-17 N. Dimakis , A. Paliathanasis , M. Roumeliotis , T. Christodoulakis

One of the greatest challenges in cosmology today is to determine the nature of dark energy, the sourse of the observed present acceleration of the Universe. Besides the vacuum energy, various dark energy models have been suggested. The…

We present the Geodesic Deviation Equation (GDE) for the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker(FRW) universe and we compare it with the equation for Bianchi type I model. We justify consider this cosmological model due to the recent importance the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-29 D. L. Caceres , L. Castaneda , J. M. Tejeiro

Geodesic observers in cosmology are revisited. The coordinates based on freely falling observers introduced by Gautreau in de Sitter and Einstein-de Sitter spaces (and, previously, by Gautreau and Hoffmann in Schwarzschild space) are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-04 Geneviève Vachon , Robert Vanderwee , Valerio Faraoni